You know, it's funny.
I travel all over the USA and Canada on the Social Media Adventure. I get requests from Facebook & Twitter friends from all over the world requesting that I come visit their tweetups or meet them in person. I get text messages and phone calls from social media connections from literally every continent (except Antarctica).
Then, a tweetup happens in my own home town, and I don't ever hear about it.
Maybe I should be taking a hint.... (I'm deciding to blame it on logistics instead)
Thankfully, @Denezy one of the people that I connected with via twitter while on my road trip to Atlanta was thoughtful enough to send me a text message:
You going to that tweetup at 6:30pm?
It was 5:45pm. I was also wearing pajamas because I was working from home all day. Oh, did I mention that it was over an hour away? (Mental calculation: 5:45pm + 1 hour ...

For many, the idea of a cross continent road trip makes us cringe, but that’s not the case for Joseph Ranseth, a 30-year-old entrepreneur and social media 'evangelist'. He’s out to disprove the notion that technology distances us as a culture, and he’s traveling the distance to prove it.
In April 2009, Joseph set out on a road trip from Phoenix to Toronto. Using his cell phone to ...